Please, check this out) it's an imaginary letter..and i don't think like Maria sorry for mistakes))
Dear Angie,
Gosh, don’t you Americans read at all? I stayed with Mrs. Jones for 3 months and once I asked her if she could advised me something to read. Mrs. Jones was a bit confused and replied that she hadn’t been reading any book for a long time. And then I discovered, that there’s no library in her house. I thought about an idea, that she is not into reading. But it ended up that it’s a hassle for her to lug all these books from place to place and it’s really hard to find time to read. You know, that she moves a lot and always overwork. I had a culture shock. I got used having a big library backhome. Do you think Americans are well-read?
One day I went with her to a drugstore to buy some new books. I found a spy thriller. It was written there “the bestseller of the year”. I thought I found a novel that everyone is raving about, but when I picked up another book. It was also the bestseller. I was surprised. Mrs. Jones explained that it was just a sales pitch and all those books had no literary value. She called them trash. I bought an interesting “how-to” manual which gives a lot of gardening tips. I think it’s quite useful. And then I discovered a lot of interesting self-assertion books and bought some of them. I really like Dale Carnegie and what do you think about him? I think it’s very important nowadays to be able to say “no”, get rid of some persistent people, so that nobody will not push you around.
When we were returning home, I saw a paper boy. I asked Mrs. Jones where I can buy magazines or newspapers. And she advised me to go to a grocery store. I decided to buy 2 papers “The Times” and the “Washington Post”. You know, I fed up reading newspapers because of a yellow press which drives me up the wall, but these papers are really informative and I can improve my English reading them. Also I bought there my favourite magazine “National Geographic”. It’s so interesting! And illustrations are really excellent. I saw a lot of gossip magazines like backhome: you name it they have it. I believe that there’s rarely an ounce of truth in it.
So, I come up with an idea to read American classics. Maybe, you can advise me something. Please let me know what you think. I hope to hear from you soon.
Yours, Maria.